"I promise, I really wasn't keeping an eye on the time."
Realizing she'd called at just the right moment, Gu Youxuan breathed a sigh of relief.
"I got a little excited."
"So I just called you."
"Then I realized I should check the time, but you'd already picked up."
"Hehe."
Hearing the girl's inexplicably silly giggle, Xiao Xiao's eyes crinkled with a smile.
"Is something the matter?"
After all, he and Gu Youxuan weren't close enough to casually call each other just to chat.
"Oh, right."
Gu Youxuan said, as if suddenly remembering.
"Hehe."
"Sorry."
"I said all that and still haven't gotten to the point."
"Ahem~"
Gu Youxuan's expression stiffened slightly when she realized she'd been rambling again.
"It's like this..."
She hurriedly got to the point.
"Master Xiao, do you remember that guy we ran into last time?"
"The one whose apple was snatched by a child."
"I remember."
Xiao Xiao raised an eyebrow.
After all, he'd run into that young man more than once.
And something unexpected had happened every time.
It was hard not to remember him.
"You remember..."
Gu Youxuan's lips curled up.
"Good."
"I just ran into him again."
She went straight to the reason for her call.
"What are the odds?"
"Mm."
Xiao Xiao nodded slightly.
"Quite a coincidence."
"And..."
Gu Youxuan's mouth twitched.
"When I saw him..."
"He was in trouble again."
"What kind of trouble?"
Xiao Xiao followed up on her words.
"..."
There was silence on the other end of the phone.
Gu Youxuan was trying to organize her thoughts.
"Last time we ran into him..."
"A child had snatched his apple..."
"This time..."
Gu Youxuan's expression turned rather strange.
She seemed to want to laugh.
But she also seemed to feel